Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari (Urdu: شیریں مہر النساء مزاری) is a former Pakistani politician who served the Federal Minister for Human Rights, from 20 August 2018 to 10 April 2022.

[5][6][7] In 2008, Government of Pakistan removed Mazari from the post of Director General of The Institute of Strategic Studies where she was due to retire in 2009.

[20] citing "policy differences and its takeover by corrupt elements"[10] after she was served a show cause notice by PTI for "making unfounded, incorrect, inaccurate and false statements in the media".

[26] She was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PTI on a seat reserved for women from Punjab in the 2018 Pakistani general election.

[27] On 18 August, Imran Khan formally announced his federal cabinet structure and Mazari was named as Minister for Human Rights.

[33] After the 09/05 vandalism of Army installations, the beneficiaries of regime change after accusing the PTI members and leadership, carried out mass-scale arrests.

On May 23, 2023, Shireen Mazari made the decision to leave the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and publicly announced her retirement from active politics seemingly under considerable duress.

While mobs surrounded the offices of Dawn calling for the editor to be hanged, she left the defense of the freedom of expression in Pakistan to others, such as Reporters without Borders.

French government denounced Mazari's tweet as "fake news and false accusation" and stated that "the proposed ID would be for all children in France".